Back in Happy's living room, the electrified Max and the swirling sandstorm that was Flint moved toward the large, Doctor Octavius-size hole in the wall.
To understand more about haboobs and dust storms, we talked to Karin Ardon-Dryer, Professor of Atmospheric Studies at Texas Tech, who's made a career out of studying these events.
It is a world of red sandy deserts (hence its name--the Red Planet), cloudless skies, savage sandstorms, chasms wider than the Grand Canyon and at least one mountain more than twice as tall as Everest.
His head turned. Smoke rose between his teeth. His blood was smoking too, where it dripped upon the ground. He beat his wings again, sending up a choking storm of scarlet sand. Dany stumbled into the hot red cloud, coughing.